FIELD

PURPOSE:
To assign values to fields of a templated string where the field names may not have been known at compile time.

STATEMENT SYNTAX:
{stno} FIELD tmpstr,str expr1 = {str expr2} or {num expr}

where:
tmpstr is the name of a string that was DIMed with a template.
str expr1 is the name of a field from the template
str expr2 or num expr is assigned to the field

EXAMPLE:
10 BEGIN 
20 DIM A$:"STR:C(10),NUMBER:D"
30 LET A.STR$="1234567890"
40 LET A.NUMBER=123.45
50 PRINT A.STR$,A.NUMBER
60 LET NAME1$="STR"
70 LET NAME2$="NUMBER"
80 FIELD A$,NAME1$="0987654321"
90 FIELD A$,NAME2$=543.21
100 PRINT A.STR$,A.NUMBER
110 LET B1$=FIELD(A$,NAME1$)
120 LET B2=NFIELD(A$,NAME2$)
130 PRINT B1$,B2

NOTES:
The DEF function name must end in a '$' if the result to be return is a string.
SEE:
FIELD and NFIELD functions.
DIM statement